VideoPlayer.ai's analytics are designed around a simple constraint: the analytics should not require you to explain a third-party tracker on your privacy policy.
What that means in practice
- No third-party tracker scripts on the player
- No advertising cookies
- No cross-site tracking of viewers
- No data sale or sharing
- No demographic inference
Every event the player sends goes only to VideoPlayer.ai's own backend. The data lands in a database you can query for your own video. It is not joined with any external dataset.
Implications for your privacy policy
Because the player does not set advertising cookies and does not send data to ad networks, you generally do not need a separate cookie banner just for the embedded video. You should still disclose in your privacy policy that you use VideoPlayer.ai for video hosting and link to the VideoPlayer.ai privacy page for the details. Talk to a lawyer in your jurisdiction; this article is not legal advice.
GDPR and CCPA
| Regulation | Posture |
|---|---|
| GDPR | The player does not set non-essential cookies. The session-scoped first-party cookie is purely functional |
| CCPA | No "sale" of personal information occurs because no personal information leaves the platform |
What you give up
The trade-off is no demographic dashboards. You will not see "your viewers are 25-34, mostly in California, interested in cooking." Privacy-respecting analytics give you what your video did, not who watched it.
For most independent creators, marketing teams, and small businesses, that trade is the right one.